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Nanocaps help scientists control magnetism reversal
Mar 03, 2006 |
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By fabricating curved “nanocaps” to study nanoscale magnetism, scientists have discovered how to partly control magnetism reversal, which could improve applications such as data storage, recording media and ...
Scientists Build Nanostructures out of Single DNA Strands
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With its unique double-helical structure, DNA has the ability to be used as a programmable building material to construct designer nanoscale architectures. Complex DNA architectures could ...
Flexible OLED display one-step closer with organic light emitting material direct writing
Oct 27, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the more interesting methods of pattern transfer available for a number of applications right now is Laser Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT). However, when working with organic material, there are some ...
Researchers Produce Best-Yet Dye-Based Solar Cells
Jul 31, 2008 |
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In work that may help solar panels become a more viable source of mainstream power, a research group has created a dye-based solar cell with a high efficiency and high stability, and that lacks the volatile chemicals used ...
New Nanomaterial, 'NanoBuds,' Combines Fullerenes and Nanotubes
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 30, 2007 |
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Researchers have created a hybrid carbon nanomaterial that merges single-walled carbon nanotubes and spherical carbon-atom cages called fullerenes. The new structures, dubbed NanoBuds because they resemble ...
New graphene-based nanomaterial with magnetic properties designed
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 02, 2009 |
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An international team of researchers has designed a new graphite-based, magnetic nano-material that acts as a semiconductor and could help material scientists create the next generation of electronic devices ...
Nanotech particles affect brain development in mice
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Maternal exposure to nanoparticles of titanium dioxide (TiO2) affects the expression of genes related to the central nervous system in developing mice. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Particle an ...
Nano-sandwich Triggers Novel Electron Behavior
May 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A material just six atoms thick in which electrons appear to be guided by conflicting laws of physics depending on their direction of travel has been discovered by a team of physicists at the University of ...
'Buckyballs' to treat multiple sclerosis
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 19, 2009 |
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If you're of a certain age, you'll remember Buckminster Fuller's distinctive "geodesic domes" - soccer-ball-shaped structures that the late futurist envisioned as ideal human domiciles. Tel Aviv University ...
Pure carbon nanotubes pass first in vivo test
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 28, 2006 |
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In the first experiments of their kind, researchers at Rice University and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have determined that carbon nanotubes injected directly into the bloodstream of research lab ...
Nano World: Nano risk blueprint proposed
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 19, 2006 |
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Instead of a general call for more federal research into the risks of nanotechnology, a new strategy proposes a move beyond to recommend how these investigations should get prioritized and implemented, experts tell UPI's ...
Nano World: $30 billion in nano goods
May 10, 2006 |
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Emerging nanotechnology made its way into more than $30 billion in manufactured goods in 2005, more than double the year before, experts tell UPI's Nano World.
Nano World: Rapidly scanning nano impacts
Feb 28, 2006 |
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Scientists could rapidly track potential impacts nanoparticles could have on cells via a new technique employing infrared scans, experts told UPI's Nano World.
Nanotech discovery could have radical implications
Jan 03, 2006 |
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It has been 20 years since futurist Eric Drexler daringly predicted a world where miniaturized robots would build things one molecule at a time. The world of nanotechnology is beginning to come to pass, with ...
Nanotech discovery could have radical implications
Nov 30, 2005 |
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It has been 20 years since the futurist Eric Drexler daringly predicted a new world where miniaturized robots would build things one molecule at a time. The world of nanotechnology that Drexler envisioned ...
